The chilly autumn is here

3rd September 15           morning                mid section

cloudy,  10-13°c,   1016mb,     NW 4-9 mph

All birders love autumn for many it's the favourite season ( not me spring is my favourite ) . There's a chance that anything can turn up under favourable conditions ( favourable for us not birds ) and more likely to stay around. It can also be very frustrating, our summer migrants and breeding birds are leaving, mostly going unseen overhead it's only when for one reason or another, usually weather related they make landfall that we can check them out. So birding trips become lottery. Today was a flyover day, still a few warblers around but not many and not much else.

Canada Goose	c40 >> NE over	Barleyfield
Buzzard	1 moulting ad over Barleyfield,  flew south to the Cedars firs,
Moorhen	1 brood	1 ad + 1 juv Prefab Weir
Black Headed Gull	25+ over	Compton Field
Lesser Black Backed Gull	c15 over	Compton Field
Wren	1 singing	Hanging Grds
Robin	3 singing	mid section
Whitethroat	1 calling	Hanging Grds
Blackcap	4	mid section
Chiffchaff	2 calling	Barleyfield
Nuthatch	1 calling	The Paddock
Jay	1+	Barleyfield
Goldfinch	6	Meccano Grds
Bullfinch	3	Hanging Grds